New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-12
FELLOWS At THE WAKE.

Meaning our own John X lie went over 20
Poston IN Saturday to assist his brother Icmo
Gratis OF that city in concentrating the JefYer.
sOnHn simplicity and the other esteemed characl
teristics OF the late lamcnted Andrew jackson
They asked Fellows 10 speak when dinner was
over. and he enthusiastically accented their invi
tation. The result OF course was that the blue
azure was torn to shreds In several places by his
careeriny coquence II was a great evening for
Fellows. and II 1t was permitted TO jackson u
listen 10 him Old Hickory must have been a good
zeal entertained.
MIR. Fellows put to the Boston Democrats a
number OF assorted conundrums just listen to
him:
For twenty-five years yom have struggled What wa, 1t
wna aoe, snow NO other party Ia. ever survived
VIGOROUS active. faithful hrou all these wears
ses again with renewed visori Why wSs 10 sst vnn
walked up In the face of defeat for years realizing the
suffered social os,racsmi WHY was II thai IN sss m yna
OF the IRE OF martyrdom you came out untouchedi
While John was about it he ought 10 have mo
pounded harder For these conundr,,m, are
self answering. Why did the Boston Democracy
suffer social ostracism'i Answer, IL didn't
Why did the Boston Democracy come out I'M
touched from "the fire OF martyrdomrY An
swer, 1t didn't come out untouched because there
was no fire Of martyrdom" for It to enter The
fact liz that these two conundrums are sinnlv In
be regarded as two good examples of the votivo
offerings to buncombe TO which after dinner is
wont TO betity spouling geysers OF the Fellows
order Fire OF martyrdom' fosooth Fire
OF straight New-England rum moro likely Tho
other conundrums which this silver-or Mt least
silver plated-ton;ucd Democrat of ours fired a,
his Boston brethren are not more intricate than
these we have disposed Of What was il Tint s,s
tanned and soOthed the Democratic party d,,,,p,
the quarter Of century OF defeat Spells .Jobn
the love Of spoils, a love that widcned and deem
cned and took to itself annex with the ycars
Napole sam that the gratitude Of place-eA
ants was IA lively sense Of future fayo,s IL
was but natural That Dem Gratis should be place
eAlectants-had not great Democratic Leader
laid down the proposition that to the vicio,s
belong the spoils' Where's the sense in pivin,
cut ccnundrums that guess themselves the first
time tlyins2
No end OF elegant extracts might be ouorr,oa
from Fclows's halcyon and vocferous cratic,
but we have only room for one more H. ia ,ho
obituary notice which he has thougbtfuIIv nro
Jared for his party This is the way IL is re-
ported in "lhc Boston Globe:
The Constitution Of the United States and m. ~
cratic party they lovely In their lives and IN ,n
they aie not divided" Great applause.l N'"'"
II NJ not customary for the relatives. friends
and acquaintance of tho deceased 10 grco, a.,
obituary notice with great applause p,',
considerin. how droll is the obituary In question
il is MT strange that the rule was violated hv
these Boston Democrats as they listened 70 r.,.
lOws's eulogy Vt the Democracy. Imputiny In n
political party good portion OF whose record
during thu Inst quarter Of a century IL necessu
My keIt in chloride Of lime and cognate disIn
fcctants hnputins to IL lo,eliness.-the lowell
ness Of the Constitution any other sort of love
liness-is so absurd that we should have imagined
that "r0ars OF laushterl" would have been